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NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade 2013 draws revelers

Originally published: March 16, 2013 11:23 AM
Updated: March 16, 2013 10:07 PM
By NATHANIEL HERZ. Special to Newsday

Long Islanders celebrated, honored a heritage and even proposed at the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City. Videojournalist: Jim Staubitser (March 16, 2013) (March 16, 2013 7:28 PM)

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NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade 2013 Valley Stream resident Michael Casalino, center, 63, marches

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Enthusiasm for everything Irish spilled over Saturday at New York City's 252nd St. Patrick's Day Parade, from green suspenders and finger paint to bagpipe renditions of Irish folk songs.

But few of the estimated hundreds of thousands in attendance rivaled the ardor of Patrick Shannon, an acclaimed Irish-American from Levittown who died of cancer last July at 81, and whose devotion to cultural...

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